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Graduate Calculating Cross Section: Is (1-\gamma^5) Same as (1-\gamma_5)?

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Graduate Calculating Static Potential with Lattice Calculations

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Undergrad Parton? quarks? what is the difference?

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Graduate Calculating Cross Sections Using Intermediate Vector Boson Theory

  • indigojoker
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Graduate Why can K+/- mesons decay through a J=1 W boson if K mesons have J=0?

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Undergrad The nuclear fission does not work

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Graduate What Are the Pros and Cons of Different WIMP Detection Strategies?

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Graduate Formation of elements under conditions of thermodynamic equilbrium

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Graduate Light-Front Holography: Gravitational Form Factors of Hadrons

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Graduate Calculating Cross Section with 4-Fermi Interaction

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Graduate Positron-electron annihilation

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High School Why most particles are spherical?

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Undergrad What is the structure of the electron?

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Graduate ?Ref for Cutkosky cutting rules

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Graduate Can Mini Black Holes Really Form at the LHC?

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Graduate Theoretical question - what would happen?

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Graduate Law of Impulse Preservation in Positron-Electron Annihilation

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Graduate Can Electrons and Protons Fuse to Form Neutrons?

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Graduate Producing Neutrons: Electron Capture vs Electron-Proton Collisions

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Graduate Why did Matter Beat Out Anitmatter?

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Undergrad Is nuclear fusion radioactive?

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Graduate Milo Wolff: Spherical Standing Wave Structure of Matter

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High School Fission activity at GCSE level

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Graduate Create a Nuclear Bomb: Splitting the Uranium Atom

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Undergrad Why do beta particles have different energies at the same energy level?

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Undergrad What happens to the extra electrons in alpha decay?

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Graduate Could Low Temperature Experiments Trigger a Vacuum Decay?

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High School Is there a reaction called nucleus reaction?

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Graduate What does FWHM in gamma ray spectra indicate about the source?

  • Sean Reed
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Graduate Properties of Particles for research

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Graduate Effective neutron multiplication factor

  • Physicsissuef
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Graduate Do protons and neutrons have quantum numbers?

  • m4730
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Graduate Energy reconstruction in calorimeter

  • kenith
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Graduate Charge Independence and Pauli Exclusion Principle

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Keeping track of CERN's development

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Graduate Why Are Higgs Branching Ratios for WW Higher Than ZZ?

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Graduate Can Electrolysis and Cold Fusion Work Together to Generate Energy?

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Undergrad Can Protons Emit and Absorb Any Amount of Energy in the Continuum?

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Graduate How does deuterium interacts with neutrons?

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Graduate What is the difference between eta meson and eta prime meson?

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Graduate Discussing Predictions of the LHC: String Theory, LQG, and Beyond

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Graduate What are the differences between eta and eta prime mesons?

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Undergrad Understanding Neutron Diffusion in Nuclear Reactions

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Graduate Who introduced group theory into quantum field theory?

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Graduate Why are delta-particles so short-lived?

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Graduate Are Elementary Particles Real or Just Theoretical Constructs?

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Graduate Large Hadron Collider Black Holes

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Graduate Why is branching ratio in the lifetime formula for lepton decay?

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Graduate Fision products, the W coincidence

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Graduate Why haven't we detected stable superheavy elements yet?

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Graduate Finding EQ of Motion for Systems of Particles

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Graduate Reactions of captured muons with nuclei

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Graduate How Does Asymptotic Freedom Impact Strong Interactions in QCD?

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Graduate Calculating Suitable Energies for a Muon Lifetime Experiment

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Graduate Matter-Antimatter Split Hints at Physics Breakdown

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Graduate Interaction Terms: Understanding Lagrangian Setup in 5th Dimension

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Graduate How does the binding energy per nucleon of a nucleus affect its stability?

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Graduate Derive the Lagrangian of a free nonrelativistic particle

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Undergrad Can Methylated Spirits and Liquid Nitrogen Work for a Cloud Chamber?

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Graduate Why Does GEANT4 Calculate a Lower Ionization Cross-Section Than Expected?

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Graduate How is gamma radiation produced within the nucleus?

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Graduate What is a soft particle in HEP and why are branching fractions in GeV?

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Graduate Can magnetic resonance weaken nuclei and accelerate nuclear decay?

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Graduate Does system mass equal sum of particle masses for freely moving particles?

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Graduate Higgs fermion … the march is over … ?

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Graduate What quanta mediates the nuclear forces?

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Undergrad Can neutrino detectors measure energy?

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Graduate What Distinguishes Left-Handed from Right-Handed Fermions?

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Graduate Time translation invariance and the vacuum state

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Graduate What is proton magnetic moment and how is it measured?

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Graduate Quark-Gluon Liquid: Searching the Primeval Universe

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Graduate On spontaneous symmetry breaking and Higgs’s mechanism of mass production

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Graduate Why Are Currents in Matrix Elements Confusing?

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Graduate Photon as electrical force carrier

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Graduate Why Do GUT Theories Only Use Left Spinors?

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Graduate What is charge? Why do fundamental particles possess it?

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Undergrad What causes plasma to reach such high temperatures?

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Graduate Are monopoles a problem for all gauge groups in GUT theories?

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Graduate Why Are Force Unification Scales Different in Physics?

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Graduate Thought experiment: Implosion reaction

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Graduate How Does the Neutrino Mass Matrix Connect to Up-Quark Masses?

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Undergrad Can we add or remove a proton?

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Undergrad Constructing a Table. (Radioactivity)

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Graduate What are Preons and How Do They Fit into the Standard Model?

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Undergrad Annihilation and anti-matter interactions

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Graduate Where are the Higgs boson particles

  • jal
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Graduate The difference between Compton and DeBroglie wavelengths?

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Graduate What Is the Role of J x B in Rotating Magnetic Field Current Drives?

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Graduate Gauge invariance and it's relation to gauge bosons

  • PsiPhi
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Graduate Questioning Proton Mass Measurement and Variation

  • David George
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Graduate Why is my D-T fusion energy calculation giving 17.1 MeV instead of 17.6 MeV?

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Undergrad Atomic Half Lives: Calculating Half Life of an Atom

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Graduate The Rest of the Yukawa's Theory

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Graduate Why Are Hadrons Heavier Than Their Quark Components?

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Graduate First Evidence of New Physics in b <-> s Transitions

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Graduate Radiotracer Decay - What's Left?

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Undergrad Higgs field, mass and why particles cling to it?

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Graduate Unparticle physics is currently a very popular research area

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Undergrad Would a beta particle continue indefinitely in empty space?

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